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Islamofascism

Reject Terrorists, Not Scripture

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Osama Bin Laden, Christian Terrorism, Islamophobia, Scripture and Terrorism, Islamic Terrorism, Islamofascism, Religious Terrorism, Terrorism and Religion, Religious Fundamentalists, Religious Fanaticism, Islam, Religion News
Clay Farris Naff

Reject Islamophobia in favor of terror-o-phobia. The enemy is not a certain religion but barbaric practices done in its name.

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Obama's Mideast Policy: An Unpromising Drive Towards a Cost-Effective Pax Americana

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Egypt, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Democracy Agenda, Somalia, Over the Horizon, George W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, Lebanon, Iraq, Realism, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kurds, Jordan, Bill Clinton, Saudi QArabia, Turkey, Sunnis, Yemen, Palestine, Hamas, Barack Obama, Offshore Balancing, Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Shiites, Neoconservatives, Israel, Hizbollah, Taliban, George H. W. Bush, Afghanistan, Islamofascism, World News
Leon T. Hadar

President Barack Obama is continuing to reorient U.S. foreign policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular, along the lines of the internationalist/neo-realist approach pursued in the pre-9/11 years

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Bombing Iran and the Banality of Journalism

Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Iran, Investigative Journalism, Jeffery Goldberg, The Atlantic, Israel, Islamofascism, Media News
Shaun Jacob Halper

Is there a happier journalist this week than The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg? So much ink has been spilled discussing, critiquing, and debating Jeffr...

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Talking Turkey About Turkey

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Turkey AKP Party, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Freedom Agenda, Turkey Kurds, Narrative, Lebanon, Iraq, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hamas, Cyprus, Armenian Genocide, Brazil, Iran, Gaza, Shiites, Peace Flotilla, Israel, Neoconservatives, Islamofascism, Un, Ottoman Empire, Tureky, World News
Leon T. Hadar

In short, Turkey is not as threatening as its detractors warn nor as powerful as many Turks and their new fans believe.

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Invitation to a Beheading: South Waziristan Park on Steroids

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Empire-of-Illusion-the-End-of-Literacy-and-the-Triumph-of-Spectacle, The LawFare Project, Children's Rights Institute, Gadap Town, Nicholas Berg Decapitation, Daniel Pearl Decapitation, Decapitation, Daniel Pearl Beheading, Brooke Goldstein, Nicholas Berg Beheading, The Making of a Martyr, Islamic Radicalism, Daniel Pearl, Swat Valley, Jihadism, Taliban Decapitation, Islamofascism, Taliban Beheading, South Waziristan Decapitations, South Waziristan Beheadings, Nicholas Berg, Beheading, South Waziristan, Qanta Ahmed, Richard Horowitz ESQ, Religion News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

If we blinker our focus to cartoons on cable we will pose no obstacle to the endless anonymous, slow execution of Islam at the hands of a thousand unrecorded decapitations.

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The Dangers of Religious Passion

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Religious Radicals, Religious Extremism, Religion, Religious Fanatics, Islamic Radicalism, Religious Extremists, Terrorism, Islamic Extremists, Religion and Politics, Christian Militia, Islamofascism, Right-Wing Extremism, Religious Fanaticism, Religion News
Clay Farris Naff

Those who would manipulate the masses to their own advantage invariably draw on the power of passion. And for most of history, and never more than now, religion is the passion of choice.

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